"The Light that burns twice as bright burns half as long...and you have
burned so very very brightly..."

FUJI PAGODA FINAL SCORE (aka The Tokyo Terror)
# of characters arrested even before entering the Pagoda: 5
# of characters taken out of the Pagoda in body-bags: 5
# of characters taken out of the Pagoda in sealed biosafety body-bags: 4
# of semi-alive characters pulled out of the Pagoda on gurneys: 3
# of characters who walked out of the Pagoda: 1

While Dante and his sammie companion stepped through the Nexus into the Dead
Realm, Cerberus and Dimsi were fighting their way through several levels of
security in the advanced Powered Armour (Militech M95 Ghostsuits) they had
stolen from the Cryonics/Robotics facility. In the Dead Realm everything seemed
to have changed radically, with tremendous flows of Dark Mana and a seething
energy permeating the atmosphere. All the Sumerian statuary and artefacts
swayed and sang in this realm as if possessed. Exploring towards the centre of
the exhibition, Dante, Killer and Method (who was rappelling across the ceiling)
suddenly came face-to-suit with a huge Power-Armour Titan covered in inky fluids,
seaweedy tentacles, and strange barnacles. The Titan immediately opened fire,
but it's attempts to mow down the group were cut short by Killer's precise burst-
shots into its sensor array. Dante snuck away and encountered a hideously-deformed
Fomori creature with a superlong tongue, and despite creative efforts to magically
fabricate a monofilament trap, was pounced-upon and strangled.

Meanwhile Cerberus explored the realspace Sakura Museum and, after a preliminary
security sweep, determined that the thing to do was to step through the Nexus.
But first he created a magical eldritch barrier to protect the GhostSuit's delicate
photonics. Finding himself in the middle of combat with an enemy Titan, Cerberus
retaliated with heavy fire and eventually managed to fatally cripple the suit.

Killer had fled to reload and regroup and then encountered a woman's face - that is,
a woman in some sort of stealthsuit which rendered the rest of her body invisible.
Following a predictable pattern, he attacked her and was quickly beaten to a bloody
pulp by Ann-Sofie. Cerberus flanked the central Nexus and saw a strange scene:
Radiant energy within the Nexus flowed around twin serpents - one golden and the other silver - who
themselves twined around a large chalice which was 'feeding on' the oceans of dark
mana that were flooding the Dead Realm. The entire ceremony was being orchestrated
by a weak-looking man wearing a twead suit, bow tie and spectacles - Dr. Atgill.
His features contorted by the insane energy of the Qlippothic Spheres, he struggled
to open the rift that would enable the Master Program! As Cerberus approached, he was
met by a huge man in a classical Japanese O-Yoroi suit of armour, complete with face
mask and twin daisho swords, who with great speed and skill quickly dismembered the
entire Ghostsuit! As Ann-Sofie moved at lightspeed to engage this fearsome warrior,
Cerberus crawled from the womb of the crippled suit and began casting powerful
lightning and eldritch spells to disrupt the ceremony even as EDEN appeared in the
middle of the Nexus and initiated the potent Death v1.0 spell to destroy life within
the Pagoda! With a tremendous wave of magical energy Cerberus annihilated the
corrupted Dr. Atgill and his protege, Alpha, and then proceeded to attempt a very
risky woven Spell of Dismissal to close the Rift. Unfortunately he was too late
as Death in the Avatar of the Black Rhino (Al-Aswad) escaped the bonds between
dimensions and invaded the Pagoda. With a final burst of effort Cerberus sealed
the gate, but at a fatal cost to himself. As the sole conscious survivor, Method
quickly used his mechanical allies and rigger skills to re-activate the now-defunct
Pagoda electro-mechanical network and transported the surviving people down to the
Infirmary. The seriously-drained Cerberus, Dante, Ann-Sofie, and Jack Stormond were
revived by skilled neurosurgeons, but the invasive machinery used in the process
damaged the fragile Souls of both magicians.

Following the release of Death v1.0 into the Pagoda, thousands of people on the
upper levels simply ceased to exist, while thousands more died on the lower levels.
The partial closing of the rift stopped the hideous massacre, but the Medical
Collegium immediately quarantined the entire Fuji Pagoda. As Protocol war-sats
moved into position to annihilate Neo_Tokyo to prevent contagion, an emergency
meeting of the Protocol Security Council decided to spare that great city in the
belief that the problem was localized. Hundreds
of Great Mind AIs around the world were deactivated until a GAICA inquiry could
determine the cause of EDEN's corruption and provide safeguards.

The surviving players were flown out of the Fuji Pagoda Denied Area in cloaked
hyperspeed-subs and taken to an orbital medical facility called HALO, there
to await reconstructive surgery and many months of healing. As the Fuji Pagoda
writhed in the throes of Death, the Sword Water Clan moved against its rivals
in the Red Lotus, and quickly took over many of the operations in Neo_Tokyo,
partially with the help of the jewel brought back by Pandora. The Yakuza
Oyabun, Shiro 'Sharkgrin' Usaka, expressed the Clan's eternal gratitude by providing
the survivors with unlimited medical facilities, access to Scandinavian black
clinics for special cybernetics, a massive system-erasure of their records within
the Japanese Registry [Arcane +1], and $100,000 each in 'petty cash' for anything else
they wished. The Dusklanders, having been saved by some of the characters, have
befriended them and promised assistance, but Method has kept all the 'evidence'
he collected in the Museum. News of the 'Tokyo Terror' quickly spread
within the ranks of shadowrunners like wildfire, and the fame and influence of the team increased
astronomically.

Never ones to stop and smell the roses, the team decided to
go on a road-trip through the Western States after several months of convalescence,
and have last been spotted purchasing puppies in Phoenix.